Lewis was born in 1801 in Rutherford County, North Carolina. He was a constable, a lawyer and a justice of the peace in 1852. Mr. Warren Weaver of Blount County stated that he owned an apothecary in Blount County called White and Woodard and Yelberton Woodard was his partner. The first court in Blount County was said to have been held in the rear of this apothecary.

Source: History of Warrior, Alabama. Blount County Courthouse, Oneonta, Alabama.